Gone Fishing

(This one's for you Mom :)

Ethan, Annelise, and I went fishing today. Of course it took an hour to go the store to buy worms and then to a different store to buy gloves, but after we accomplished this we were ready for fun. The gloves were necessary to enable our handling of the worms :)


Ethan successfully picked up the worm, but he just couldn't get it on the hook...too wiggly.



Sooooo...it was up to me. Donning the gloves, I fearlessly picked up that four inch worm...



And impaled him twice with the hook. (This only made him wiggle more.)




After several attempts (I forgot how the fishing rod worked), I managed to fling the worm out into the pond . Yea me!




Of course a few minutes later I managed to hook myself and the worm. This time I even dehooked myself gloveless :)




I turned the reins over to the boy...who didn't need a course in remedial casting and was able to put the worm back in the water.




And so we fished. And had fun in the beautiful weather. The worm lasted through many toils and snares.



We only went home after Ethan caught something on the bottom. We did our best to reel it in, but the line broke...leaving us both wormless and hookless. But I am pretty certain that the worm is still firmly attached to that hook at the mucky bottom. So I think I did my part.

And I still remain fishless!

Ethan always has an idea...some kind of plan. The other day he strung rope all around the yard to make a ladder to climb up a tree. Our yard looked a bit like a spider's web, but he was happy.

The other night after the kids were in bed I heard noises out on my deck. Both the cat and the dog were sleeping peacefully together in Madeline's bed. I heard a crash that was the result of the cat's bowl falling down. I looked out the kitchen window and this is what I see:



I have long suspected that we have a possum in the back yard, but now I can prove it :) I went and grabbed the camera and quietly opened the window so that I could capture him. In the morning I showed Ethan the pictures and he thought they were cool, but the first thing he asked was "did you catch it?" There was a time when I probably would have tried, but it didn't even cross my mind...so we do not have a new pet. He is now on the look out for the possum.

Brand New Cousin

Ethan is now a cousin...he should be good at it since he has received glowing reviews as a big brother :) He is also being overrun with girls, but he is ok with that. When I told him that his new baby cousin was here his first response was "where is it?" I had to explain that she was in the hospital with Aunt Crystal and Uncle Dan in Maryland. Even though early on he had hoped for a boy, he was quite taken with Holly. And rightly so...just look at her :) He is looking forward to meeting her in person.